Engineering Team Lead, Merchant Data Hub

Engineering
Berlin, Germany
Full-time
About Wolt
At Wolt, we create technology that brings joy, simplicity and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. In 2014 we started with delivery of restaurant food. Now we’re building the delivery of (almost) everything and you’ll find us in over 500 cities in 30 countries around the world. In 2022 we joined forces with DoorDash and together we keep on dreaming big and expanding across the globe.
Working at Wolt isn’t always easy, but it’s definitely exciting. Here you’ll learn more, build more, and ship more than in most other companies. You’ll be challenged a lot, but also have a lot of fun on the way. So, if you’re a self-starter with drive and entrepreneurial spirit, this could be the ride of your life.
Our Merchant Data Hub (MDH) team is on a mission to build the most reliable, fast and scalable platform for delivering merchant data across the globe. By aggregating knowledge from multiple sources and delivering it through robust APIs, MDH empowers teams to focus on creating value without worrying about the complexities of data ingestion and delivery.
We’re now looking for an Engineering Manager to lead this talented and highly impactful team. This is a unique opportunity to shape a cornerstone of our platform, guiding the delivery of merchant data that underpins customer experiences across both DoorDash and Wolt. You’ll work alongside skilled engineers, product managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to define the vision, foster technical excellence, and ensure we continue delivering merchant data reliably, quickly, and at scale.
What you’ll be doing
As the Engineering Manager for the Merchant Data Hub team, you’ll lead the development of one of our most critical data-serving systems. This isn’t a typical backend platform team tucked away in a silo - MDH operates in a dynamic, fast-changing environment where your work is both highly impactful and visible. You’ll combine technical leadership with people management, ensuring your team delivers high-quality merchant data APIs at scale while maintaining a strong engineering culture. Your work will balance business impact with engineering excellence, enabling product teams to move faster with reliable, well-structured merchant data.
**Day-to-day in this role you’ll**:
Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team, fostering growth, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Define and communicate the MDH vision and roadmap in partnership with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Collaborate with stakeholders across both companies to identify shared needs, reduce duplicate work, and integrate best practices.
Ensure timely, reliable delivery of merchant data services, balancing new feature development with system stability, scalability, and technical debt management.
Oversee technical architecture decisions for MDH, ensuring alignment with broader engineering strategies.
Manage project execution, ensuring goals are met, risks are mitigated, and stakeholders are informed.
Build a safe, inclusive, and high-trust team environment that encourages open communication and innovation.
Our humble expectations
Proven experience leading engineering teams, ideally in a data platform, backend, or distributed systems domain.
Strong technical background, with the ability to engage in architectural discussions and guide complex technical decisions.
Experience balancing delivery speed with long-term maintainability, scalability, and system reliability.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working across multiple teams and stakeholders.
A people-first leadership style that fosters growth, inclusion, and a strong engineering culture.
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment, and able to adapt priorities as business needs change.
**Bonus points if you have**:
Experience with large-scale API design and data-serving systems.
Familiarity with technologies in our stack, such as gRPC, GraphQL-like APIs, or event-driven architectures.
Background in working with eventual consistency models or multi-source data aggregation.
If you thrive in high-stakes environments where your work is business-critical and highly visible - you’ll feel right at home here
Next steps
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We build the technologies powering Wolt. Our apps connect millions of customers, hundreds of thousands of courier partners, and tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. We now operate in 30 countries, 500+ cities and we’re growing fast.
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